Tag: hype
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Buying into the Hype: Red, White & Royal Blue
Over the summer, our YA book club read the ultimate summer book Red, White & Royal Blue. But did it live up to the hype?
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Buying Into the Hype: Artemis
Getting sucked into bookish hypes is so easy, but often not worth it. Esmée will look into these hyped novels for you, so only she has to potentially waste her time. What’s this hype everyone’s talking about? We’ve built a city on the moon! Maybe not ‘us’, but humankind. Jazz lives on Artemis, the only…
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Buying Into the Hype: Caraval
Getting sucked into bookish hypes is so easy, but often not worth it. Esmée will look into these hyped novels for you, so only she has to potentially waste her time. What’s this hype everyone’s talking about? Caraval is a YA novel about two sisters, Scarlett and Donatella, who escape their abusive father to take…
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Buying Into the Hype: Truthwitch
Getting sucked into bookish hypes is so easy, but often not worth it. Esmée will look into these hypes for you, so only she has to potentially waste her time. What’s this hype everyone’s talking about? YA hypes come often and die quickly, but when Truthwitch took over my Goodreads feed in early January, I…
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Buying Into the Hype: City on Fire
Getting sucked into bookish hypes is so easy, but often not worth it. Esmée will look into these hypes for you, so only she has to potentially waste her time. What’s this hype everyone’s talking about? City on Fire is the 944 page novel written by first time novelist Garth Risk Hallberg. It took him…